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CATHOLIC
CHURCH

Talents placed at the service of mercy (The Age, Melbourne) Jan 19 – (Obituary) Sister Janette ("Jan") Gray’s first book, Neither Escaping Nor Exploiting Sex: Women’s
Celibacy (1995), emerged from her Masters in Theology for the Melbourne
College of Divinity and became a bestseller.

POLITICS

Pastor Danny Nalliah’s church faces tax
bill after charity status revoked (The
Age, Melbourne) Jan 17 - The church headed by controversial Victorian pastor Daniel
"Danny" Nalliah has been stripped of its charity status, and could
face a retrospective tax bill, after its congregation was asked to make
election donations to an anti-Islamic political party he also leads.

Also:
Burka ban: Almost no women in Perth wear
garment, Imam says (ABC News) Jan 19 - The West Australian Premier’s comments on burkas — including that
they were not part of Australian culture and he would prefer they were not worn
— are medieval and unfounded, as almost no Muslim women wear the garment in the
state, a senior Muslim leader says.